Currently I agonize the Union I saw rise

That you inspired the financial crisisA sense of inevitable or surprise

I know nothing in finance. I have never invested a penny stock. But the crisis shows once more that the money which came to power comes from nowhere. Finance has become anonymous, even for corporations. It is investing where there is better performance, without notion of fidelity, which, inevitably, leads to disorder. Thus, a crisis of medium importance can reverberate to the infinite. Especially when States are themselves indebted. The United States would have 1,000 billion deficit! That means such a sum There is nothing. Otherwise that States no longer have the force to restore the balance. They have been the meritorious efforts of consultation, but companies play the game Would in return, they not hire as much as they were laid off.

Personally, I've always managed budgets it has entrusted me to the head of a municipality, of a Department or any institution, by not spending more than what I had. Once in my life, my expenses have exceeded my income of 1,000 euros a month, and the Bank whose client for seventeen years I immediately threatened me! You know, I simply little. A roof and a glass of red wine per day enough me. The only subject which it me is still knowledge, is agriculture. And it is a coincidence.

A chance

I was appointed Minister of Agriculture in 1961 after a speech to the Senate where I explained that no there knowing nothing, I could say the feeling of the majority of the country, which was in my case. Me receiving for adouber me, General de Gaulle warned me: "Remember, Sir, that you are not the Minister of the farmers, but the Minister of Agriculture of the France."For him, the construction of Europe would not have been conceivable if the Germany had been the leader. It was in the industrial field, thus ensuring the France agricultural leadership.

You negotiated the common agricultural policy (Cap). Referiez you the same choice today

When we created the common agricultural policy, it was the best possible compromise, even if he did not me. In 1973, I said to be abolish the CAP for the reinventing, including through assistance to the production aid to the producer. In 2009, I have not changed my mind. It was patched, but this still does not work. As everything was upset: four-fifths of the farms have disappeared, 15 to 20 of the land devoted to agriculture also. Income may be funded, they drop when the value of the "strong start" production does not represent 25 of the price of products sold at retailers. The whole agricultural issue should be revisited.

A billion men are hungry, just remind the FAO (the UN food and agriculture organization), the Earth is capable of all feed

I am very pessimistic. Each year, arable land decreased the land pressure of urban growth. Water, of which 70 are used for irrigation, scarce at the time where the needs are. Agriculture is a major consumer of energy, but energy prices will increase. And the population also. 3 Billion people in 30 years! How, with all these new constraints, you we arrive at a balance when there is not currently

My dream, you see, would be that one day the world decides to make a real study of the fate that it is preparing, by studying each factor: demography, health, prolongation of life, explosion of the social budget, availability in water, energy, land and labour, deterioration of the climate balance. To search for the best route to follow and the precautions to be taken. The world today seems unfortunately unable to think that it manufactures for tomorrow.

Noting that he died more men because of the hunger that war, I suggested to create a Council for food security. We have a military Security Council. I'm not even sure that, by its liberal rigidity, world of the Trade Organization (WTO) does not take might exacerbate the current food shortage.

As world leaders repeatedly, must conclude the Doha Round

If the WTO header to build the same trade rules for industrial products and foods, perishable foodstuffs, it eventually undermine completely. Free trade is unable to meet the complex agricultural needs of the world. The insistence with which States repeated need to terminate the trade negotiations of the Doha round has no meaning. Especially when the European Union, only region of the world who practice free trade in agricultural products and agricultural subsidies are lower than those distributed in the United States, is the preferred target of the critics of the WTO. The world needs all agriculture in the world to feed. The only way is to organize different spaces of free trade, forcing the States to a certain solidarity, while

to guard against dangerous competitive on their basic food, as did Europe.

But developing countries want to export their agricultural products...

Very well. But what I attended today, it is still unfortunately the Organization to a new looting on a large scale in Africa. Three million hectares of land were purchased or leased long-term to produce of agrofuels in countries where people do not eat their hunger.

To feed the world, think genetically modified organisms

If it proves me that GMOs are without impact on the environment, I will support them. But, so far, the evidence of their safety was not made.

Economic, ecological crisis, food, which concerns you the most

This makes me fear, it is the bouquet! However, founding a political party on the only environmental issue seems an aberration. Two things still govern the world, as I know: the market and society. I am pleased with the success of the theme of Europe ecology, but fail to think that it is sufficient to establish good governance in the world.

Has you who have long worked in Brussels, the campaign for the European elections interested you

NULL, zero, nobody had spoken of Europe, to share... de Villiers, to fight.

And your family, the Socialist Party

I am sorry, distraught. I'm there interested more. Would be I me be interested if he knew what he offers us. The quarrels which divide make it unable to base a project. I feel Socialist solitaire. I am not the only one.

And the European Union

The European Union no longer exists. It is a device, nothing more. A European Union built on only market values cannot survive long. Currently, I agonize the Union I saw rise. When Europe was established, it was still with the hope to balance us power. Jacques Delors has perfectly summarized what should have been this organization, pleading for a "Confederation of nation-States."Each kept control, but is entrusted to the European Union military and diplomacy. I dream of a European army, but an army of peace, free of atomic weapons!

But what many dream: the Union is a denatured too different and too many countries. How plead for the entrance of the Turkey, which, without being European, would be the most populous country of the Union It would logically have the urge to preside in turn. Can we believe that 25 Christian States would vote for the Muslim Turkey And if they did not, the frustration of the Turks could create formidable problems. This is absurd. The right of reply not to States wishing to enter the Union.

But you have also criticized the Union for the Mediterranean, why

Because Nicolas Sarkozy took this initiative without day. A Union for the Mediterranean should think about what it means. Is it throughout the European Union or only the littoral States Create a Council for cooperation between North and South of the Mediterranean would have been interesting to let States establish their priorities program by program, project by project on a concrete foundation.

What are your projects

Each year, I gave about 25 lectures. Mainly on agriculture. I was invited to deliver the opening address of the next session of a school of Agronomy on the theme of youth. What will I tell them This year, the strike of the teachers and students was the show ugly I have ever attended.

In this regard, you know, I would have liked to be Minister of Education, but François Mitterrand appointed Jean-Pierre Chevenement, who found nothing more than give the tray to almost all high school students, devalues this diploma. Finally, I continued to work on the problem and prepare a book: "Education, first." Training, always! "This brings me to meetings and debates. At a meeting, while I used the word education, I have been stopped by a teacher on the theme: "our job is not to educate, but to educate."Immediately, my blood was a tower and I reminded him of Jean Jaurès circular: "You teach less what you know that you teach what you are."The inability for fifty years, rethinking school I revolt and I therefore think about a system of progressive reform continues, to a "living school". Higher education, its situation is catastrophic, since it has emptied of their substance the universities for the benefit of schools, and has emptied it with the creation of the CNRS research. This is why the University no longer works in fullness. It saves its implementation on just two matters: the medicine and law. What waste!

Are you from time to time optimistic

No, optimism is based on the illusion. I am a pessimist active. Do not try to believe that things "will arrange". Need to think, invent, roll up his sleeves and wanting "it to succeed." And "it works".

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